Reina was standing next to her son Caden who was sitting on a brown wooden chair with a small table on the side that has two glasses and a bottle of whiskey. She was grinning while looking at the two who were staring at each other. Caden then lightly tapped on his mother's arm "should I pour you some whiskey mother?
"No, I am fine"
John then made his move, he rushed towards Russel and started off his assault with a diagonal attack with the metal staff. Russel did not have enough time to dodge the attack, and he decided to block the attack with his forearm
*Bam*
"Argh, that hurts you cunt"
Russel then wanted to retaliate by moving closer, ready to stab John, however, John already anticipated Russel's attention and by thrusting the staff and aiming for the chest.
*Bang*
A little bit of blood spurts out of Russel's mouth as he was knocked back. He then slowly wiped the blood that was clinging to the corner of his mouth as he was observing John "that was a good hit kid, I am really angry now"
John did not respond, he started to spin the staff in his hands and afterwards he made a gesture with his right hand for Russel to make his move.
"Raaaaaaaah!!", Russel then started to run towards John, as he came into striking distance, John swung the staff, aiming for the head, trying to knock him out in one blow but Russel ducked by rolling on the ground. He got up quickly while John was trying to adjust his staff, however, it was too late as the mad prisoner was already near him.
Blood began to leak from John's mouth. The dagger that Russel used was already stuck inside the right side of John neck. Tears began to flow from John's eyes as the pain was excruciating.
Russel then grabbed John at the back of his hair while slowly twisting the dagger in his neck "You fucking cunt, do you think this is some kind of game, if you weren't a Crimson, you would have already been dead"
*gargle*
Russel chuckled "what did you say boy?"
*gargle* John was almost drowning in his own blood.
As Russel moved closer, John spit the blood in his eyes and stomping his left foot with the metal staff as hard as he could, thus making Russel lose his grip.
John quickly removed the dagger that was still lingering in his neck and threw it away. He then tried to kick Russel with a frontal kick, but the mad prisoner caught his right foot "Hehehehe, you're done for boy".
John gritted his teeth, "you just activated my trap card bitch" he then did a back flip while Russel was holding on to his right foot, kicking him squire on the chin with his left foot, further, his brain rattled before knocking the mad prisoner down unconscious.
John was lying on the ground with the blood still leaking from his neck as he was in great pain.
*Cough, cough*
Reina saw that Russel was not getting up from the backflip kick to the chin and declared John the winner, however, John already fell unconscious by the time she announced his victory.
Caden appeared next to John and gently picked him up. "
"Guard"
A vampire guards appeared before Caden "take the boy to his room to rest, have one of the maids look after him and tell the maid to bring him here as soon as he wakes up"
"As your command my lord"
Reina then ordered two guards to take Russel to his cell "When the prisoner wakes up, give him a healing potion and a nice meal for his services, also, I want you to bring me 3 other prisoners"
"Yes my lord"
A couple of hours later John woke up, he slowly opened his eyes and turned his head to the left and saw that one of the vampire maids was sitting next to his bed "good day young master, this one was instructed to look after young master and let the young master know to return to the training area as soon as young master wakes up".
"What! I thought I was done for the day; damn aunt Reina is trying to kill me". He then looked at the maid, she, like the rest of the many maids who worked in the crimson castle he has seen have beautiful fair skin, her hair colour is light blond and her hairstyle is in a double Dutch Braid with a low bun. The maid then handed John a big glass filled with blood "Here young master John"
John looked at the glass of blood and sighed, taking the glass from her hand and drinking the blood slowly as he was not in a rush to go training. "This is the first time I am seeing you, what is your name?"
"My name is Haven young master"
"You have a beautiful name Haven"
She then gave John a light bow "Thank you young master John"
John drank a little more blood from the glass and he could feel his energy returning little by little "Haven, can you please order me some meat, I feel a little bit hungry"
Haven was a little confused when John said he felt hungry but she did not question him "Of course young master, I will let the chef know and bring the meat as soon as it is ready".
After 30 min, Haven came through the door with a big T-bone steak on a silver plate and placed it on the table. John took a seat by the table and began cutting the steak in half, Haven was still standing as she was ordered to bring John to the training area when he was finished recovering.
"Come, sit and join me Haven"
Haven was hesitant, nervous and confused on why this boy who is above her in status, is inviting her to come eat with him by the same table.
"Young master John, I can leave and come again when young master is finished eating"
John felt a little irritated by her answer "Haven, I am ordering you to come sit and eat this steak with me"
She then slowly moved to the table and sat by the table. John then took his piece of meat and gave her piece of meat that was still on the silver plate. John prayed and began eating the meat, Haven was looking at John eating the meat with no manners. She then took the knife and fork and began to cut her meat and eating small bites.
"Here, drink", John gave her the glass that was half full of blood. "No young master John"
"Drink, please"
She then picked up the glass and took a small sip of blood, and for a moment John saw her iris turned red before it vanished in a flash. "You like?" John asked
After she took a sip of blood, she looked at him "Please forgive me young master". She then began to drink all of the blood in the glass like someone who hasn't had water for days. Haven then picked up the meat and began eating it like John
"So do you maybe know a vampire maid named Elena"
"Yes young master, almost everyone in the castle knows who Elena is because of young master"
"Can I ask you for a favor" John asked while eating on his piece of steak
"I will do as you command young master"
"No I want you to do it at your own free will, if you don't want to, then you don't have to do it" he then sighed for a moment "Can you please look after her, I noticed that she is not that close to the maids in the castle even though she has maybe worked here for over hundreds of years"
Haven finished eating her meat and gave John a subtle smile, "Yes young master, this one will look after Elena".
John also finished eating his meat "Good, now take me to the underground training area, I am ready"